Sorry for the slideshow. Copyright fought like hell on this one. Alt Tech sites have the uncensored version.

We train young men to watch V-tubers, but we won't allow them to write "KINO" on their aeroplanes because it's obscene.

“Oh yeah I’m a huge movie buff. I’ve seen all the greats. Apocalypse Now? Nah, I’m not a big fan of disaster movies. Too cliche.”

The more I learn about hippies, the more I fully understand why Cartman felt the need to start a pest control business based around them.

Calling Apocalypse Now "Dark" is like calling a flashbang "a bit bright and a little loud"

Heart of Darkness: The horrors of civilisation. Apocalypse Now: The horrors of war. Spec Ops: The Line: The horrors of heroism. Black Lagoon: The horrors of Crime-Action.

The boat scene where the crew guns down the villagers, is a prime example of why draftees are a mistake and big Army should never be used in an asymmetrical war. The fools got all anxious over some girl scrambling for her puppy. Chef's overly focused on procedure despite being in Cambodia and having main priority of escorting Willard. The crew's anxiety & nerves leading to trigger happy. Then they're all in shock over Willard mercy killing the girl. Kurt says it in one of the narrations how the Army, full of draftees, is incompetent and lack the motivation to win. He concludes the war could be won quickly & decisively with a smaller number of well trained men. Heck that's the purpose of US Army Special Forces, aka Green Berets. Their whole thing is about building relationships with locals and working together to counter the enemy, guerilla warfare & living off the land Rambo style. No need for 18 or 19 year old foolish infantry guys. Whereas in cases like the My Lai massacre, it was caused by terrible leadership , undisciplined & poorly trained darfted soldiers who didn't care about the locals. The village massacre scene in Platoon captured it perfectly. Contrast that massacre with all the known missons done by MACV SOG. Highly effective and probably did more for the war effort than thousands of draftees. Which by the way, if you read their stories one of their mayor complaints was again, bad leadership & bureaucracy. I see this everyday in my country, Mexico. Coventional soldiers get little to no training, so they have constant screw ups due that lack of training. Leadership is incompetent and often corrupt, this being the reason why cartel bosses are able to get away during operations. And the guys who are better trained for this (Army SF Corps) aren't allowed to do their job, due to being bogged down in bureaucratic bs. This why wars like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the French intervention in Mali and the Sahel, and so many more are never ever won.

If you're curious how old Laurence Fishburn was, he was 14 when filming.

The French scene has a pretty good line that puts things into perspective: "You Americans are fighting for the biggest nothing in history."

"You have no right to call me a madman. You have a right to kill me... but you have no right to judge me." I love the emphasis that Kurtz puts on judgement. As he says, a proper soldier can do his job and kill without judgement, because it's judgement that defeats us.

The line in how you win a war is don’t lose. Because the morality of the victor judges you.

"Charlie don't surf and we think he should, Charlie don't surf but you know that it ain't no good, Charlie don't surf for his hamburger mama, Charlie's gonna be a napalm star"

1. The french colony is the final cut is what I’d consider as equal on point in describing the vietnam war as any other part of the movie. It’s more than just the known facade that the American entry into the war that we all know. It’s showing that the reason to fight simply does not exist, not even on the individual level, meanwhile, the french had been there and built a jungle empire from nothing. 2. The b-52 in the final cut amongst the sunset at a distance is still creepy. The skewerd winged beast with it’s taillight still blinking is beyond eerie. 3. Turns out: Jai Paul’s *Jasmine* has an unoffical music video in the form of the latter quarter of the movie. I beg you all watch it.

little known fact: apocalypse now is a confluence of 2 books. the first, and most well known, is "heart of darkness" by Joseph Conrad. the 2nd book, and least known, is Michael Herr's "Dispatches". Michael Herr was an embedded journalist in Vietnam. This book is the sum of that experience. i CANNOT emphasize enough how lauded by Vietnam vets "Dispatches" is for getting Vietnam "right". Michael Herr worked on apocalypse now. he worked on the screenplay and wrote all of martin sheen's inner monologues. i assume this is because Michael Herr has a distinct voice in his writing. You'll know what i mean if you read anything from the book it sounds like the speech used in apocalypse now. there's quite a few scenes in the movie directly from "Dispatches". it good.

My father was in nam, one of the things he would say about that time and one of the hippy slogans was, "They liked to say, 'what if they threw a war and nobody came', but I always thought what if they threw a war and only one side came."

Kurtz says that if someone killed him, he would want that person to go back to his family and tell them everything. Willard remarks in the beginning that if Kurtz story is a confession then so is his. I believe Willard's narrative perspective is that of him leaving a letter with kurtz family personally in the state.

My grandfather fought in Vietnam and Korea, he came home and was spat on and called a baby killer. That got to him, because they sent children to the soldiers because they could get close, then they would pull the pin on the grenade they were given. He never got over that, along with watching his friend get split in two by shrapnel, and getting hooked on morphine.

Do you feel like a Hero yet?

One thing that's still abscent in media about the Vietnam War is that fundamentally it was a civil war with neighbor against neighbor in partisan fighting even beyond the two sides, with America and Australia just happening to be helping one side.

10:24 It's the same thing with the napalm girl photo; South Vietnamese aircraft dropped napalm on her village, because her village was being overrun by North Vietnamese regulars. This was in June 1972, at the height of the North's Easter Offensive, which aimed at overrunning the South now that American troops were all but gone, and the province the photo was taken in, Tay Ninh, is just one province over from the south's capital of Saigon. But it's only the United States and RVN (Republic of Vietnam) who are the bad guys for the girl's village being 'naped,' with the DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), the VC, and their Soviet and Chinese backers receiving no censure whatsoever.

I still see this sort of censorship within the modern military. Blood on the risers is a famous WWII song, that the modern military is darn near forbidden to sing. Charlie is not allowed to be used as a term for an enemy combatant, depending on the commander. Any insult towards the enemy is forbidden. Shoot, this is why you hear critics of the military say that our current military will lose the next war. Our soldiers will cross dress, and start crying as soon as the enemy shouts a bunch of slurs at them. Then the government will attempt another bribe with the US dollar which will be worthless by that point. The the government will raid the jails for soldiers, who will simply desert, or ignore orders to do whatever.

I can understand Kurtz and Williards position. Simply because war is not a damn game. It's Something that is a zero sum deal. You win, or you lose. You lose you go home in a body bag. You win you survive. You don't play around with people's lives by declaring wars and police actions and spending your peoples lives like currency for no gain. You don't draft people and then send them to die pointlessly and expect things to be hunky dory.

9:50 I remember seeing this photo in my photography class in high school( we were studying a lot of anti war photos from Vietnam ) I remember the shock from seeing this and then later that day I look up the photo and found the story behind it, I tried telling people about it but for some reason (some people not all of them) just said I was an imperialist trying to justify war crimes weird right

Surprised you didn't talk about Willard's haunting monologues that you hear throughout the movie. They were written by Michael Herr, an actual war correspondent for the Vietnam War, who witnessed a lot of the horrifying stuff that the film portrays, along with his other peers being kidnapped or hit-and-runned during his stay. He published his memoir Dispatches years after returning shellshocked, and he funnelled a lot of his experiences and emotions into the movie as well. Also cowrote Full Metal Jacket as well, so that's spiffy.

Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." Well, that's what this place feels like - hell. I hate it already and it's only been a few hours. I'm so tired. We get up at four in the morning... At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossier. I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead. Third Generation West Point, top of his class, Airbourne, Korea, about a thousand decorations, etc, etc... I loved you in Wall Street!

it will never cease to amaze me how strong the myth that the war was unwinnable for the americans really is, when the vietnamese government that fought them, has stated openly and on public record that if america kept the war going one or two more years, they would have had to throw in the towel due to logistics. Not a comment on the morality of the war, just how much left and right alike have rewritten history together completely for their own reasons.

This is the movie that made me always use the tiger camo on grenade launchers. _Always_ 🎩 🐍 no step on snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

I love how you had that Hot shots scene at the end with Charlie and Martin sheen together, it's funny when you think about the fact they both starred in award winning war film classics.

This is a good essay. Your vitriol towards the hippies of the day is understandable. My old man wasn't in the military during those days but he has just as much disdain for the hippies and media coverage of that time.

Make sure you read Heart of Darkness to pair with this movie. Just Conrad in general.

I love the sound of a notification for Almighty Loli. Sounds like victory. P.S. : can you a video on Tarzan or his author and the legacy they left in popular culture? If Conan is the Grandpa, then Tarzan is his Gigachad dad

Rising Storm 2 soundtrack in the background, hell yeah

This is going to sound pretentious as shit, but I think Apocalypse Now is one of the few war movies I've seen that succesfully makes the war itself a character, rather than just the environment.

Marlon Brando was a truly mystifying talent. Even when he put negative effort when getting ready for a role he would still deliver next-level performances that make you think he was method acting for months. Wish I knew how to channel that kind of juju. Performances in this movie are golden across the board though. I was amazed to learn that Willards monologues werent performed by Martin Sheen, but his brother Joe Estevez (who also stood in for him in several scenes while he was recovering from a heart attack.) He beautifully captured the leads state of mind by the end: Forever damaged, but with a renewed, resolute sense of self.

The snail on a razor is literally me

Funny to think that's theirs two Movies with Marlon Brando, Both adaptions of Novels, Both well known for the behind the scenes chaos. One turning out to be the Masterpiece of Apocalypse Now, The other being the disastrous Island of Dr. Moreau

It's absolutely astonishing that Coppola managed to finish this movie, yet alone made such a timeless classic, with all the craziness going on during the production.

Hey soldier you know who's in charge here? " yeah "

Often the idea of a "any means necessary" character is used for a basic villain to establish a black and white morality. They're evil, so it's okay for Heroman to stop them for the good feels. But it certainly is much more interesting when it's used with an antagonist/character that's meant to make you wonder about its merits. If it can work and should be done.

I think the scene that freaked me out the most is when they finally get to Kurtz's compound and they're showered in headless arrows from all angles. They're absolutrey outnumbered by these crazy people who could kill them at any moment. The locals are probably quite willing to die fighting modern soldiers using nothing more than ancient weapons.

If I had a nickel for everytime a psychological horrors of war movie used footage of an actual killing of a cow; I’d have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird it happened twice

20:28 so basically the Vlad the Impaler strategy

One small correction: the 289 minute cut exists online, it's a bootleg version in lovely 240p but it does exist and the Assembly Cut as it's called is terribly mixed audiowise from the 10 minutes I've seen of it but definitely on my watchlist whenever I have close to 5 hours of free time on my hands

37:06- Oh, you mean the song that you turned into The Black Swordsman Theme Song

What I find most impressive about Apocalypse Now is that it's a prime example of what Doug Walker called "epic filmmaking". That opening shot where the air force drops napalm on the forest? They really set the forest on fire. All the stuff you see on screen is really there, which is insane if you think about it.

That's what cracks me up about people crying about a certain side in a war in this modern day and age people don't understand you have to do horrible things in war to win

Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death, or victory.

I saw Redux one night, on a whim. It had no title card, no credits. It just WAS. I forgot what I did after it concluded. I felt like I'd been dragged through broken glass and shoved into a box. I don't remember a LOT about it, but I can't forget that I saw it.

I always assumed that Roach was supposed to be nodding-off on heroin, and that they woke him from his stupor, and the heroin brought his mind to enough of a standstill to be able to easily and steadily aim without flinching or overthinking.

Funny you do this right after Starship Troopers. In the novel of Starship Troopers they discuss the difference between proper war and meaningless brutality. I think what seperates Kurtz from Mai Lai is that he understands that killing and brutalizing people for it's own sake is pointless and that you need to excercise practical displays of brutality. You gotta measure the cost benefit analysis. Brutality is often necessary to a degree to win but you can embolden an enemy with it and lose yourself as well. The Jackal talks about this in Far Cry 2, the art of Wartime Brutality to break the enemies spirit is a display like a gorilla beating his chest, if you forget that and lose yourself in the display you become less than a man and it can be fatal.

One of the best cinematic retellings of classical literature ever! Heart of Darkness as Military movie seems so simple now but it’s still conceptually brilliant

The strange thing is every war is treated differently in ww2 vets were showered with praise in vietnam they were spat on my pawpaw told my when he came home after being wounded from korea he said alot of people were only vaguely aware that we were in a real war with china in which MILLIONS of troops were mobilised from all corners of the earth.

"They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you. You will be worse. Rip and tear, until it is done."

Your video comparison between Spec Ops: The Line and TLOU2 was the 2nd video I ever saw from you - and that was 3 years ago??? Man, how time flies! Even though I know it was "growing pains" for you, I still enjoy that video. Cheers!

The more you learn about Vietnam and the generation who grew up during it, the worse of an opinion you will have of them, especially given their response to more modern conflicts. Also, if you were ever in doubt that Hollywood was always full of awful people, look up what Jane Fonda did during Vietnam and the reaction of her contemporaries, the first Rambo movie will make a lot more sense afterwards.

The first time I saw this movie was still in the theaters, sometime around 1981 . I took some LSD and walked five miles through a Wisconsin blizzard. There is no way to describe what it was like having Marlon Brando telling me "You must make a friend of horror and moral terror" with a head full of acid It occurred to me that Col. Kurtz has some very valid points. He was a warrior. This was his essence as a human being. Yet, he was forced to take his orders from people whom he knew to be cowards, liars, and hypocrites whom he couldn't possibly respect. After the traumatic experience that cracked his sanity, he made the irreversible decision to be what he knew he was, and accept the consequences without regret. Willard understood this, not only because he was a warrior, but because he had reached the same turning point.

I know I’m going to get shit for this, but I recently replayed Tomb Raider 2013 and I have to say that on this playthrough I had a better understanding of Mathias, the antagonist and leader of the cult. As you described with Kurtz, its easy and simple to call him insane, a madman, a murderer (the game does this as well) but the reality is that he’s actually a sane man in an insane situation doing the only logical thing to survive. It gave me a deeper appreciation for the game.

I remember watching the Redux version one night when I was alone at home, and man, that traumatized me 0_0 but after watching your video and looking back at it, it's truly just a sad tale of what happens to good men who are sent to war and become something that they never wanted. War in itself is horror brought into the light, it's dark, cruel, vile, and twisted by men of power who don't have the stomach to fight the war themselves. Moving to a personal note, I have a brother who's in the military right now, in the Marines. He's eager to go to war, he's talked about from time to time with my parents and with me. I honestly dread the thought of war, i dread the thought of my brother stepping into it, now i know someone would say, "Well it's what he signed up for on the doted line." Yes, i understand, my own father also signed that line as well and he's still alive today, but no one truly survives a war. There's something in the human body, the soul, that's been destroyed or taken out. That's what I fear and dread, i fear for my brother. I fear that he might not survive but i know he will, along side with brothers in arms but I just hope they all come back safe. Though i know, it won't be the case in the end

37:43 if only you could put the scene of Charlie on the Huey yelling I’m not going I’m not going in the video

I love your breakdowns makes me enjoy the movies and shows I love in a different light, stay up my homie!

Oh, man, your spec ops review was so long ago, lmao, you grow so much. Deserved 100%, you are a man of culture and wisdom.

Love the smell of new review in the morning!

This is imo Martin Sheen best role, I also love he cameo in Hot Shot Part Duex where he referenced the dossier scene

It’s been years since I’ve seen this film and I feel inspired to go see it again, thanks for that Loli.

Bro your videos are art love the song intros fabulous content keep making them 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.

I love this review! I think Willard became the ultimate warrior,then decided not to be one. We can have dark talents and decide not to indulge them. Maybe we have brighter talents too.

A few years ago I saw what I think was the "final cut" in theaters, and being in that setting for the air cavalry attack scene will always be one of my favorite cinema memories. From what I recall, it had the plantation scene and a bit of the USO show.

holy shit, this content is getting frequent! You're spoiling us!

"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin."

Man, seeing this review really makes me want to re-watch...Hot Shots Part Deux.

This was a very interesting video🤔 I love it when you dive deep into the thought processes of these types of characters and the themes involved. I’d LOVE for you to dive deep into Punisher Max in a real longboi video! You’ve covered the series here and there in your streams so a long boi is inevitable

Wonderful review. THANK YOU

This is the end. Beautiful friend. This is the end. My only Friend, The End.

My favorite war movie BY FAR. thanks for the video man this is one I've been waiting on just like the Conan video. Cheers!

I'm only half way through and GODDAMN this is a good review. Great Job, Almight

I’ve been thinking of this movie a lot lately and been listening to the doors. Thank you for letting my mind indulge more apocalypse now!

Thank you for the sick video man, 141k subscribers is criminal!

You've done it again Loli! Reviewing another beloved classic! I always look forward to your analysis and interpretations in cinema, you've got a good eye for that shit!

Ending the video with the spec ops the line ost was a nice touch

When you think of what Coppala achieved with making The Godfather,The Conversation,The Godfather 2,this and helping Lucas with American Graffiti among other things like Rumble Fish,The Outsiders,Tucker and even Peggy Sue Got Married it's no wonder why he is frequently considered one of the best filmmakers of all time. With the state of films now and their DEI,ESG garbage we could use a filmmaker of this caliber now.

I've actually never seen this and omg is it on the list now. What a great review though, I feel like many youtubers would be a little afraid to delve into the moral hypocrisy with such confidence, but it's very refreshing. Feels like we're not all just pretending. But maybe I'm missing something, anyways great vid

Something not often talked about is how south Vietnam basically had a series of awful leaders and borderline dictators that were never popular and very often caused problems for everyone. I believe at one point the country was lead by an eccentric purple suit wearing, ivory pistol Carrying, Air Force commander and having metal gear solid characters as the President is never a good sign.

thank you Joseph Conrad for making this video!

This video made me finally watch the whole thing and HOLY SHIT that was a wild trip.

I always enjoyed the psychological interpretation of apocalypse now and heart of darkness of an internal journey going further into the mind to meet the pure id that is Kurtz.

I'd love for you to cover war films like the Deer Hunter, Ivan's Childhood, or Before the Rain. The latter isn't so much a war premise like the first two, but it analyzes the backdrop of war very well.

"Wake up babe literally me review just dropped"

What a strange stroke of chance, I just watched this film a few weeks ago and then just realized this channel covered it recently. All according to causality

I think this is your best video. Great job.

My head canon ending is that when Willard kill Kurt’s he also killed “the man that kills” that the French lady was talking about and can now be the man who loves with his French waifu and lance is there to

Funny thing me and a couple of friends were talking about this movie last night

your spec ops the line video convinced me to buy the game and i love it so much. what a masterpiece

Im waiting for that chapter 376. Its been 5 months 🙏. You got me into berserk and i finished it today appreciate all of your work ❤ Thank you,

Easily one of the greats. I grew up, like many of us I'm sure, when "War is hell" was already a huge cliche but when I got older decided to give the classics a shot. Liked Platoon for what it was. Hated Deer Hunter for being a boring pretentious mess but Apocalypse Now... damn! What an incredible film! And knowing what a madhouse the production was only makes the film that much more grounded since half of the cast and crew were actually losing their minds.

Your video really makes me want to see an in-depth compare and contrast video essay that apprises the three colonels we see. They all have similar agendas but differ on how they want those carried out, and Willard's interactions with all three of them each say something different about MACV and upper command in general.

The horror...the horror.

there are a few interviews where a former MACV-SOG operative talks about the scene with Willard in the hotel room was very similar to moments they could recollect during their own career. and the books written by various SOG members reflect a similar sentiment in their own ways.

Great vid bro.😺

I remember the first time watching this on a snow day with my Dad, it's one of my most cherished memories.

Digging the stalker soundtrack in the background. You should do a review on some soviet films like Solaris and Stalker